Jewish Quislings |
An Open Letter.
To Juice Voice for Peas, IfWhatWhat, Grand Rabbinic Council of Reconstructionists, NefelUK, JustJuice, JewEat? AsaJew, Juice Red Guard Corbyn Brigade, et al.
My Wretched Juvenile
Quislings,
Not to worry. I will not be adulting you. I will not try to change your mind about the Gaza War. You have made your morally relavatist bed. And you will be known forever for your October 2023 choices.
Jewish
civilization is a big tent. It is decentralized, and there are many contending tribes.
I do not believe in excommunication; no one is authorized to serve as our
civilization’s gatekeeper.
Yet there have
always been some general rules of the game. For example, if you accepted Jesus
as your savior, you became a Christian. A Meshumad might be Halachically
Jewish, I don’t know for sure, but they were dead to the community.
For many of you,
Baptism is not an option. You are atheists, so embracing Islam or Christianity to
win the acceptance of the non-Jewish world is not an alternative. You might dabble
in Buddism, but that doesn’t buy you creds on the street.
Vidkun Quisling |
If I threw you in a synagogue, you wouldn’t know which way to face or how to hold a prayerbook.
Or maybe you are among those who did get a limited Jewish education and, like
the apostates of medieval times, use what you know to harass your people. You recall the perfidious turncoats who incited the Christian clergy to burn Jewish
books.
For most of you,
however, your Jewish identity is rooted in having eaten bagels, lox, and cream
cheese and – let’s not forget – having a good sense of humor.
You hook up with
Islamists who would slit your throat if you landed on their turf. You somehow
can accept 23 ethno-Arab states (see Arab League) and 61 Islamic states (see
Organization of Islamic Cooperation) that identify as Arab or Muslim. However, somehow, one Jewish state is too much for you.
Too ethnic. Too parochial.
Your essential “Jewish”
identity is rooted in the negative. What makes you Jewish, by your definition,
is opposition to Israel and Israeli policies. If you get your way and Israel is
destroyed, what happens then to your “identity,” you vacuous putz? Like the
Wicked Witch of the East, you’ll melt away.
You say you are
doing Tikun Olam. How, in your twisted, woke minds, will the world be repaired
if Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the PLO triumph and Israel is defeated? Have you
read the PLO Charter or the Hamas Covenant? Oh, sorry. They are probably not on
your Instagram feed.
Rest assured, I am not trying to sway or deprogram you. I mean only
to disparage you and express my contempt, not just to you. Your parents have much
to be ashamed of. They had a choice about what values to inculcate, and the
outcome speaks for itself.
And don’t think you are absolved if
you hide behind “bothsiderism.” Maybe suggesting that under certain circumstances,
Israel might (maybe) have a right to exist, or under qualified circumstances,
Israel might (maybe) have a right to (gasp) defend itself. And then taking a
stance that makes survival and defense impossible. Or maybe you’ve paid lip
service to the “hostages” while supporting a ceasefire to save Hamas so that it
can fight another day.
Bothsiderism is the choice of ethical weaklings. It’s rooted in Obama-babble,
“What is also true is that” countered by “And what is true is that”... Intellectual
Yada. Yada. Yada.
And so, my wretched juvenile quisling, there ain’t no coming home. There is a right and a
wrong, a good and an evil. Israel is imperfect. The Zionist enterprise is flawed.
But Hamas is evil. You picked Hamas.
Besides knowing right from wrong, one of life’s
most elemental lessons is not to betray your civilization. No matter how full of
self-loathing or how alienated from your heritage – do not hand over your
people to the enemy in their time of distress.
You have done that. You are a 21st-century Meshumad. Don’t let the door slam your ass on the
way out.
Excellent posting. For those unaware, “quisling”=traitor, named for the Norwegian politician who headed the Naz-installed Norwegian government in WW II.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Aaron for making that clear. Elliot
DeleteCould not agree with you more! Thank you for this article!!
ReplyDeleteThank you Eliot for your brilliant rendering of this existential moment in our history.
ReplyDeleteExcellent! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteI am reading Rabbi Joseph Telushkin's book on Hillel, the 1st century great Rabbi famous for “What is hateful unto you, do not do unto your neighbor. That is the whole Torah, all the rest is commentary. Now, go and study.”
ReplyDeletePalestinians are neighbors, not just fellow Jews.
Of course Israel has a right to exist and is spiritually meant to be a light of nations, but something has gone wrong and a major awakening and return to Torah values as framed by Hillel is needed. I believe that if we really begin to consciously strive to embody “What is hateful unto you, do not do unto your neighbor," then the right action will be revealed, a new beginning can unfold, Israel can be saved and become the light it is meant to be.
As a born again believer in Yeshua 73 years old yes I am Jewish but we need more of GOD .Yeshua was born under the law lived a sinless life and taught Torah and was the fulfillment of Torah the rabbis knew it Shabbat Shalom and i pray for the peace of Jerusalem with you
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